Is there a way to migrate Published build artifacts from one project to another in Azure DevOps?
No, it's now possible for now.
Artifact needs to be associated with a specific build, which cannot be created/imported, it needs to be triggered for a build definition.
Ref:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/rest/api/azure/devops/build/artifacts?view=azure-devops-rest-6.0
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/rest/api/azure/devops/build/builds?view=azure-devops-rest-6.0
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While creating a pipeline for a project it depends on another project that's located in a different Azure DevOps collection and even though Azure Pipelines lets you download artifacts from the collection the project belongs to, I couldn't find the same solution for the projects outside of the current collection.
Azure structure:
- CollectionOne
- ProjectOne
- ProjectTwo
- CollectionTwo
- ProjectThree
- ProjectFour
The ProjectOne, depends on the dll files produced by the ProjectFour.
How can this be done?
edit 1:
This is my nuget pipeline item.
When ProjectOne is the main project and you want to use ProjectFour as something like a libary.
You could try to run pipelines for the ProjectFour updates then upload the files into the Azure Artifact
Then you could use the Artifacts in other collections by setting corresponding service connection.
Here take nuget package as the uploaded Artifact as an example:
You could use 'nuget' task in pipelines, choose to use feeds in my config.
You could need to use 'nuget' service connection to communicate with the feeds outside the collection
If you don't have one, you could click add new in the third screenshot to create one for using
Choose 'External Azure DevOps Server' here and fill the following blanks.
Then you are supposed to be able use the nuget files in the other collection's artifact.
I am using a custom agent pool in Azure DevOps. I have made a build and published the artifact but I want to update a file in artifact without creating a new build. how we can do that in Publish Artifacts task it showing that upload /home/ubuntu/myagent/_work/4/a to file container: #/9464/Artifact-Name.
I am logged in to agent pool server and checked all the directories but I couldn't find the file container location. Can any buddy help me to find the Artifact location in agent pool.
Thanks in advance.
Based on your drop location, you probably can't. The only way I imagine this would be possible is if you were publishing to a share location instead.
When you publish artifacts (that would be visible from the build summary), those are stored on the Azure DevOps database content tables and are immutable. As Jane Ma mentioned in a comment out about the local files:
The directory referenced by $(Build.ArtifactStagingDirectory) is
cleaned up after each build. [...] you can't edit published artifacts.
You can get them in agent pool's local file, but all local operations
are not synced to the Azure DevOps. If you want to do follow-up work
on this artifact, you need to run a new build to update it.
I'm doing a project where I want a intermediate pipeline to consume an artifact from another pipeline to later forward it to another pipeline, which then starts running. I have not managed to find a solution online to this functionality and I'm starting to think that that functionality is not (as of today) supported in Azure DevOps. Can someone confirm whether this implementation is possible with pipelines? If not, how should one approach this scenario? I'm relatively new to Azure DevOps, so it's possible that I might have missed or misunderstood some information online.
I know that a pipeline can download an artifact which was published by another pipeline. And I know about pipeline triggers. Currently I have managed to consume artifacts in the intermediate pipeline, but now I have to find a way to send those artifacts to a specific pipeline, from the intermediate pipeline.
I appreciate all the help I can get.
but now I have to find a way to send those artifacts to a specific pipeline, from the intermediate pipeline.
We could publish build artifact from the intermediate pipeline by the Publish Build Artifacts or Publish Pipeline Artifacts task in the intermediate pipeline, then we use the Download Build Artifacts or Download Pipeline Artifacts task in the specific pipeline to download the artifact which we published from intermediate pipeline.
Yo could check this document Publish and download artifacts in Azure Pipelines for some more details.
Update:
Are you aware if this functionality is planned for Azure DevOps? If we
put it this way - is it possible for my intermediate pipeline to,
depending on some variables, trigger a specific pipeline (i.e. it can
trigger two different pipelines, but which one to trigger depends on
some variables)?
The answer is yes. There is extension Trigger Build Task, which can be used to trigger a new Build so that build-chaining is possible.
And we just need add the value of the variables as condition for this task, then we could trigger a specific pipeline depending on some variables.
Where this specific pipeline is in another project. Is it also
possible for this pipeline to access the variables which I created in
my intermediate pipeline?
I think I might understand what you want to achieve. you want to create some variables in the intermediate pipeline, then use this variables in the specific pipeline.
The answer is yes. But there is no directly way to access the variables which you created in intermediate pipeline. The solution we need to set the default value for the variables in the specific pipeline, then use REST API Definitions - Update to update those variables in the intermediate pipeline.
Please check my previous thread for detailed REST API scripts.
As far as I know, the solution would be adding Azure Artificats to store the output from Pipeline 1, then in Pipeline 2, download the artifact.
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/artifacts/overview?view=azure-devops
I have a build pipeline which I created and I have the artifacts in a drop folder.
Now I want to deploy these artifacts. The drop folder contains my data factory resources like pipelines, datasets.
I have 2 questions:
What task for the agent should I select in the release pipeline to deploy this folder?
How do I specify that in this environment it should go ? i.e. If I suppose have a QA environment, then how do I specify that thing?
I am actually confused over this selection of task for the agent.
What task for the agent should I select in the release pipeline to
deploy this folder?
It's based on where and how you want to deploy the artifacts.
If you just want to deploy them in a local machine where you can access, then you just need to add a Copy Files task to copy the artifacts to the target folder.
If you want to deploy to other remote sites or third party services, then you need to select other tasks based on your requirements, and some of them we need to create services connections to access them.
For example Deploy to Azure(e.g. Deploy a web app to Azure App Services)
How do I specify that in this environment it should go ? i.e. If I
suppose have a QA environment, then how do I specify that thing?
In release pipeline we can defined multiple environments/stages, in each environment we can add different tasks to do the actions based on our requirements. We need to add the artifacts sources to deploy them in the release pipeline. Please see Release pipelines for details. You can reference below links to do that:
Reference Exercise 2: Examine the CI/CD pipelines configured by
Azure DevOps Project
Azure DevOps - creating a release pipeline- Video Guide
I have a java application and am trying to use Azure DevOps to build and deploy. Am able to do a build and publish the artifact in the build pipeline. In the release pipeline, I stages (dev/train/prod) in each stage I have a maven task to detokenize the build specific to the environment which I am able to do but I want to publish it as a artifact similar to the one in build pipeline. Is there any task to do that or any other alternate approach?
Can we publish artifacts in release pipeline - Azure devOps?
Sorry for any inconvenience.
This behavior is by designed and MS replied they don't have plans to support uploading folder/artifacts from release in near future.
When you check the document Publish Pipeline Artifacts task, It stated that:
Use this task in a pipeline to publish artifacts for the Azure
Pipeline (note that publishing is NOT supported in release
pipelines. It is supported in multi stage pipelines, build
pipelines, and yaml pipelines).
And if you check directly code that is executed, then you can see the Publish Pipeline Artifact task works only for Build pipelines.
You could check this ticket on github for some more details, many communities are waiting for publish artifact from release pipeline.
So, I helped you add a request for this feature on our UserVoice site, which is our main forum for product suggestions:
https://developercommunity.visualstudio.com/idea/823829/support-publish-artifact-from-release-pipeline.html
You could vote and add your comments for this feedback. When there are enough communities vote and add comments for this feedback, the product team member will take this feedback seriously.
Hope this helps.
I was facing the same problem: I wanted to upload artifacts in a release pipeline and in a later agent phase download those artifacts again.
Based on some answers from a related SO Post I created an Extension that offers the possibility to:
Upload a file or a folder to the Release Logs
Automatically download an Artifact from the logs that was previously uploaded
The upload task is making use of the built-in logging command to add files to the Release Logs. The download task then queries the Azure DevOps REST Api to download all logs collected thus far, tries to find the specified artifact and copies it to a specific place.
If anyone is interested, it can be found on the Marketplace